British rocker Graham Nash first heard Neil Young's classic Harvest album as his pal blasted it over his lake while they were boating. The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young star was invited to listen to the 1972 album at the Canadian rocker's ranch near San Francisco, California, and felt sure he'd be checking out new tracks in the comfort of a studio - but audiophile Young had other plans.
Nash tells TheAfterword.co.uk, "The man is totally committed to the muse of music and he'll do anything for good music. And sometimes it’s very strange.
"I was at Neil's ranch one day... and he has a beautiful lake with red-wing blackbirds. He asked me if I wanted to hear his new album, Harvest, and I said, 'Sure, let’s go into the studio and listen'. Oh no, that’s not what Neil had in mind. He said, 'Get into the rowboat... we’re going to go out into the middle of the lake'.
"Now, I think he’s got a little cassette player with him or a little, you know, early digital format player, so I'm thinking I'm going to wear headphones and listen in the relative peace in the middle of Neil's lake.
"Oh no! He has his entire house as the left speaker and his entire barn as the right speaker. And I heard Harvest coming out of these two incredibly large loud speakers, louder than hell. It was unbelievable. Elliot Mazer, who produced Harvest, came down to the shore of the lake and he shouted out to Neil, 'How was that, Neil?' And I swear to God, Neil Young shouted back, 'More barn!'"

Actress Viola Davis had to conduct a planned TV interview with comedian Jimmy Kimmel via Skype on Thursday (26Feb15) after plane problems left her stranded in Ohio. Davis spent six hours at an airport before checking into a Columbus hotel so she could freshen up and look her best for her guest spot on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Explaining why she couldn't be in Hollywood for the scheduled TV chat, she told Kimmel, "Rudder problems on Delta Airlines... I was in the airport for six hours. I was trying to get to you, Jimmy."
She also missed the finale of her hit U.S. TV drama How To Get Away With Murder, but it wasn't all bad news for the Doubt star - Delta bosses made sure she was compensated for her troubles.
Davis adds, "I did get 10,000 free miles on Delta and I got serenaded in the airport - a woman sang to me in the magazine store. And I did meet Macy Gray's cousin."

We've already discussed Easter Eggs in movies and the many ways filmmakers create in-jokes and references for savvy viewers and those in the know, but today we're taking a look at filmmakers referencing other filmmakers (or their stars...or themselves). We bet you'll never watch these movies the same way again.
Honoring Directors They Admire:
1. Star Wars in Star Trek
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It's no surprise that Super 8 director J. J. Abrams is a Star Wars fan, but we bet you never caught R2-D2's appearance in both Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness. It looks like Star Wars: The Force Awakens won't be Abrams' first time with the Star Wars world.
Giving a Nod To Its Stars' Careers
2. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion's wink at Quentin Tarantino
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The comedy has a few subtle references to Quentin Tarantino's film universe. At the time, Mira Sorvino (Romy) was dating Tarantino. Thus, the keen eye can discern a Big Kahuna Burger take-out bag behind Michele's head in the scene where they pig out and decide to emulate top female executives. In one of the next scenes, an ad for Red Apple Cigarettes can be seen behind their car. Both of these brands were made up by Tarantino for his films. Red Apple cigarettes can be seen in films like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Four Rooms, and From Dusk Til Dawn.
3. Bruce Willis' Favorite Song
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Die Hard With A Vengeance has a Pulp Fiction reference in it! Who knew? Bruce Willis' Pulp Fiction character, Butch, is driving around while "Flowers on the Wall" by the Statley Brothers plays on his radio and he sings along before running into Marsellus Wallace. Die Hard's John McClane exits a cab in the 1995 film with Samuel L. Jackson and references his time suspended by reciting the same lyrics from Pulp Fiction: "I was working on a nice fat suspension. Smokin cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo." Willis starred in Pulp Fiction with Jackson between Die Hard 2 and Die Hard With A Vengeance.
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with Rango
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The beginning of Rango features the Johnny Depp-voiced reptile landing on the windshield of a convertible driven by none other than Duke and Gonzo from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Johnny Depp paying tribute to Johnny Depp.
5. Adam Brody in Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith
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Okay, maybe everyone just really loves Fight Club and Brad Pitt, right? In the 2005 rom-com action movie, Seth Cohen plays the man they're both assigned to kill, which is how they realize they're both spies. The whole time, Brody is wearing a Fight Club t-shirt. It's pretty obvious whose side he's on.
6. Fight Club Starring Brad Pitt
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Fight Club has a bunch of hidden gems in it, including advertisements for its main stars. Theater marquees within the movie advertise films starring Brad Pitt (Seven Years In Tibet), Edward Norton (The People Vs. Larry Flynt), and even Helena Bonham Carter (The Wings of the Dove, although it's obscured by a bus in the scene, so this is questionable).
Paying Homage To Themselves:
7. The Social Network's Tyler Durden
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Fight Club's director David Fincher has also been known to reference his own movies. In The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg's Zuckerberg uses Facebook for help on an Art History assignment. The profile he's viewing? Tyler Durden's.
8. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
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In the Tim Burton adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic, Charlie's father works for Smilex toothpaste factory; this is a reference to the poison Joker unleashed on Gotham in the Burton-directed Batman by hiding it in their toothpaste. During a tour of the factory, Wonka walks by a room of pink sheep as he says, "I'd rather not talk about this one." While this may just seem like a way to accentuate his eccentricity, Burton's actually referencing his Ed Wood biopic, also starring Johnny Depp; director Ed Wood was a notorious cross-dresser with an affinity for pink wool. In other scenes throughout the movie, children in the Halloween flashback wear masks of Lock, Shock, and Barrel from The Nightmare Before Christmas and a door in the factory is marked "BeetleJuicing."
9. Before Sunrise/Waking Life/Dazed and Confused
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Oscar-nominated writer-director Richard Linklater's film worlds seem to intersect at times. Like when Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reprise their characters Jesse and Celine from Before Sunrise in the rotoscope dream movie Waking Life, which they then reference in Before Sunset. But there are subtler ways in which the films inhabit the same world: pinball. The same pinball machine can be found in at least three of Linklater's films: Waking Life, Before Sunrise, and Dazed and Confused.
10. Friends With Benefits picks up Easy A
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Director Will Gluck references his 2010 hit comedy Easy A in the totally-okay-but-not-as-successful 2011 film Friends With Benefits. The sign at the airport for an "O. Penderghast" alludes to Emma Stone's character in Easy A. Stone appears in both films and is flawless in both.
Paying Tribute To Other Directors:
11. Indiana Jones/Star Wars/E.T.
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R2-D2 makes another appearance - this time in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Spielberg paid tribute to Indiana Jones writer George Lucas by including hieroglyphics of the Star Wars droid in the 1981 film. Three years later, Spielberg did it again by naming a club in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom after Obi-Wan Kenobi.
12. E.T. in Star Wars
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And then George Lucas thanks Steven Spielberg by featuring E.T. the Extra Terrestrial in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
13. Evil Dead 2/Nightmare on Elm Street
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Director Sam Raimi pays homage to Wes Craven in Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn by sneaking iconic slasher Freddy Krueger's glove in the background of a few scenes.
Paying Tribute To The Genre:
14. Scream
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Scream is more jam-packed with references than most other movies. It's basically a two-hour homage to the horror genre entirely. The character Billy Loomis borrows his last name from Psycho's Sam Loomis before quoting Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates. The janitor outside Principal Himbry's office (played by director Wes Craven himself) is named Fred and wears Freddy Krueger's iconic striped shirt. The film is so saturated with in-jokes and references that it's pretty easy for even the most savvy viewers to miss Scream Queen Linda Blair's brief cameo. Take comfort in understanding the constant name-checking of other horror flicks.

Twisted Sister star Dee Snider is urging fans to help him raise funds for friends hoping to save a young relative from a life with alleged drug addicts and criminals. In a post on his Facebook.com page, the rocker and DJ is hoping to swell a GoFundMe campaign aimed at helping a couple win custody of a teenager called Destiny.
He writes, "I am PERSONALLY reaching out to all of my friends to help a friend. Do you have a child? Doesn't every child deserve a home, food, shelter and, most of all, a family to love them, cuddle them, protect them? I am reaching out to you, now, and until this goal is not only met, but more."
The New York-based couple behind the Destiny Fund is hoping to raise $10,000 (£6,670) to cover bills for their ongoing custody battle.
In a post on the funding page site, the couple writes, "This case has cost us nearly everything we have, our savings, checking and some valuables. I have sold many of our possesions (sic) in order to retain our attorney and keep fighting to have Destiny remain in our custody.
"We need help... Every single week I am taking Destiny to court appointments, psychologist appointments and other various appointments pertaining to the custody hearing, which are also hindering my ability to land suitable employment."
Snider reveals he is planning a benefit gig to raise money, adding, "Inbox me if you are interested in fighting for a better life for Destiny! Please don't let me down, people, we are talking about a CHILD here. Any donation means something!"

A prosecutor is set to call for Lindsay Lohan's probation to be revoked in court on Wednesday (25Feb15) for allegedly counting her acting work in her community service hours. The Mean Girls actress rushed to complete 240 volunteering hours by January (15) as part of her sentence stemming from a reckless driving case.
Lohan completed many of her hours with Britain's Community Service Volunteers (CSV) organisation while she was living in London and starring in a West End play, and prosecutor Terry White requested time to verify the legitimacy of the work after she allegedly logged hours for meeting-and-greeting fans and letting youngsters shadow her.
Editors at TMZ.com report that White found a string of irregularities in her community service report, calling all 240 hours into question, and he will ask a judge to revoke her probation.
While checking the report, White reportedly discovered Lohan received credits for two stage performances and for throwing a fundraiser for CSV bosses. He also claims she reported doing volunteering work from 11am to 3pm on one day but a matinee performance of Speed-the-Plow began at 3pm.
A representative for CSV recently defended Lohan's community service hours, telling WENN the actress had provided a valuable service during her time with the organisation: "Lindsay has been... working alongside young volunteers as they gain new skills, boost their CV and gain confidence through volunteering. She has buddied up with a young volunteer and has built strong relationships with volunteers and CSV staff, contributing to a community radio show, CSV's Red Route Cafe and planning future events."

The Fault In Our Stars author John Green has issued an apology to a young fan after taking credit for a quote he thought he had written.
Fans have long attributed the phrase, "I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met", to Green's 2008 book Paper Towns, so he became convinced he had penned the thought-provoking line too. He even sold posters featuring the words, but Green has since discovered the truth about the quote, which was originally sourced from fan Melody Truong's social networking page on Tumblr.com.
Truong was accused of stealing the line from Green, but when her friend went public with the story on Reddit.com recently it caught the author's attention. In a YouTube.com video apology issued on Tuesday (17Feb15), Green reveals he actually illegally downloaded a digital copy of Paper Towns to search through the copy and check the story - and now he admits, "I'm the thief!" He explains, "When I saw the quote, I assumed it came from Paper Towns. People kept sourcing it as coming from Paper Towns."
Now Green has started retroactively paying royalties from poster sales to Truong and he admits the Internet has made it easy for mistakes like this to happen. He says, "We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources."
A stunned Truong has since responded to the news, saying, "I'm still in a state of shock about the situation, actually. I never expected any of this to happen. I've always looked up to John Green as a role model. I know that if this happened to me with another person or company, nothing of this calibre would have occurred. He is the prime example of a wonderful person."
Paper Towns is set to be adapted for the big screen with British model/actress Cara Delevingne in the lead role.

Actor Nicholas Brendon has been arrested again, less than a week after confirming reports his five-month marriage is over. The troubled former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star was arrested for felony grand theft at a Hilton hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was attending a comic book convention.
According to a police report obtained by TMZ.com, Brendon caused $450 (£300)-worth of damage to his hotel room and rang up a $380 (£253) food and drink bill, which he refused to pay.
It's not the first time Brendon has encountered legal woes at a comic convention - he was arrested in October (14) for a disturbance at an Idaho hotel and charged with malicious injury to property and resisting or obstructing officers. He later apologised and assured fans he was checking into rehab.
That arrest came just weeks after he wed his second wife in Las Vegas.
She revealed the union was over in a post on her Facebook page earlier this month (Feb15), and Brendon's publicist confirmed the news in a statement posted to his client's social media page on Thursday (12Feb15).

Actor Emile Hirsch has checked into a rehab clinic to battle alcohol addiction after he allegedly attacked a woman while drunk last month (Jan15).
On Thursday (12Feb15), the Into the Wild star was charged with third degree felony aggravated assault and misdemeanour intoxication for allegedly assaulting Paramount Pictures executive Daniele Bernfeld at a Sundance Film Festival party in Utah in January (15).
The 29-year-old actor was heavily intoxicated during the incident and is now addressing his alcohol issues in rehab after checking himself into a clinic in the days after the bust-up.
Hirsch's spokesman Robert Offer tells TMZ.com, "Emile consumed an enormous amount of alcohol on the evening in question and he has no memory of what happened.
"Emile takes these allegations very seriously, and is devastated that any of this has occurred. A few days after the incident, Emile sought help and checked himself into an alcohol rehabilitation facility, where he remains today, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again." Hirsch is due back in court on 16 March (15).

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Two long years after Breaking Bad ended, we've finally returned to the meth-filled landscape of New Mexico. Before we actually arrive in the pre-Heisenberg era Albuquerque, we catch up with Saul Goodman in the present, working at a Cinnabon in Nebraska. Shot in black and white, the opening of the highly anticipated series shows Goodman in a subdued, yet still extremely paranoid state. He returns home, fixes a drink, and turns off the weather report (more snow, just like Walter White himself would have heard while he was in hiding) to watch old commercials for his law firm.
Cut to 2002, where Saul Goodman, going by his real name, Jimmy McGill, is defending three teenagers accused of necrophilia. McGill reasons that this is a simple case of boys being boys, and that technically nobody got hurt. The prosecutor's response is to simply play the tape the teens filmed themselves, of them sawing off a cadaver's head before engaging in sex acts with it. This is the sort of defense (and use of the word "technically") only Saul Goodman would try. Of course, the three teens end up in jail.
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After posing as his own secretary and engaging in an embarrassing-to-watch altercation with the parking lot attendant (Mike Ehrmantraut!), he tries desperately to convince the Kettlemans, suspected of embezzling $1.6 million, to use him as their legal representative. They're not entirely convinced, asking to sleep on it, and in a last-ditch effort to sway them, McGill orders a "classy," expensive-looking-but-cheap flower arrangement for them while driving, only to crash into a skateboarder. The skateboarders are trying to hustle him, and in a very "don't hustle the hustler" moment, McGill gets rid of them.
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He then returns to his office, possibly the only workplace sketchier than the one we met him in on Breaking Bad, in the back of a nail salon. He finds a check for $26,000 amidst a pile of overdue bills in his mail, which he promptly rips up. We next see him storming obnoxiously into a real law office, where he insists with the partners to cash out his brother, Chuck, who he's convinced will not be returning to the firm. After his unsuccessful meeting with the partners, he leaves the building, dejected, only to discover the Kettlemans meeting with the partners.
Agitated, Jimmy heads to his brother's, checking his watch and cell phone in the mailbox before walking into the house and grounding himself (his brother believes he has electromagnetic hypersensitivity). He argues with Chuck about the buyout, ultimately losing that argument as well. Chuck then suggests Jimmy changes the name of his practice, to avoid confusion with his law firm.
McGill then tracks down the skateboarding scammers, relaying the story of his days known as Slippin' Jimmy, where he would slip and fall to get easy money. He convinces them to con Betsy Kettleman, showing them her car and an intersection she'll drive through at a specific time, to both earn some money for himself and the skaters, but also to screw over the Kettlemans. For the first time all episode, we see that something works for Jimmy, and the car hits the skaters just as planned.
Since nothing ever actually goes as planned for this guy, the car takes off after hitting the skater. They follow the driver to a house, where, instead of Betsy Kettleman exiting the car, it's an elderly Hispanic woman. Having just talked to Jimmy, they know they can earn more money from her since she's just committed a felony, and they begin to harass her despite an obvious language barrier. She goes inside to get "mijo." Mijo is none other than Tuco Salamanca, future enemy of Walt and Jesse, which we learn moments later as Jimmy arrives and Tuco pulls him into the house at gunpoint.
The next episode shows that Tuco's distraught abuelita explains to her grandson what happened, while the skateboarders shout over her to Tuco that there would be problems unless they received money. At one point, they refer to Tuco's dear novella-loving abuelita as a "biznatch," which is a really catastrophic mistake to make when dealing with a member of the Salamanca family. Tuco calms his grandmother upstairs and insists she watch her television show (loudly) while he deals with the situation.
He handles the situation the way any unhinged person would respond to their grandmother being called a "biznatch" -- he bashes their faces in with his grandmother's cane. His abuelita comes to check on things, only to find Tuco cleaning the carpet, where he spilled some "salsa." His grandmother, whose main concern is of course the stain setting on her carpet, insists he uses club soda. After assuring her he would and getting her to return to her novella, he makes a call, asking someone to come over with a van. And that's when Jimmy knocks on the door.
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McGill convinces Tuco that this was all, more or less, a misunderstanding, and pleas for the skaters to be spared, if they haven't already been killed. Tuco leads him at gunpoint into the garage, handing James a knife and allowing him to cut them free. As soon as he removes one's gag, the skater outs McGill's whole story, leading them all into the desert where so many will one day lose their lives on Breaking Bad.
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Once in the desert, Tuco and his men standing over him, James McGill tries to explain that this was all a misunderstanding; he's a lawyer trying to scam some embezzlers in order to gain their business. Unconvinced, Tuco takes a pair of wirecutters to Jimmy's fingers until he ultimately lies and tells them he's an FBI agent. Upon even more interrogation, he reverts back to the truth, explaining that he's a lawyer, and is finally freed, because it's not a good idea to get on a lawyer's bad side in the meth business.
Once freed, he is about to leave the desert unscathed, but decides to try to save the lives of the skate-scammers since, really, it's his fault they're here in the first place. McGill fabricates a story in true Saul style about their hard-working arthritic mother who would be crushed if her sons died. After some more negotiating, Tuco agrees to only break one leg each.
After then going on a date (in a silent, soundtrack-over-sound scene featuring mostly breadsticks and lipstick-covered straws, the only low point of the two-part premiere), Jimmy returns to his brother's house without grounding himself or removing his cell phone. When he wakes up, Chuck is covered in a space blanket, and he realizes that Chuck has seen the bill for the skaters' hospital visit. He assures him that he's not going back to Slippin' Jimmy days.
Enter another somewhat-weak montage of his everyday life in the courts as a public defender. Then, we see James in his nail salon office, where he's visited by his first client to see him there, Nacho, one of Tuco's "business associates." Nacho is looking to find the $1.6 million the Kettlemans embezzled, and offers McGill a 10% finders fee for helping him. McGill refuses, but Nacho leaves his number and reminds McGill that if he speaks to anyone about this conversation, he'll be killed.
The episodes bring back the glory of the Breaking Bad days without being cheesy or overly nostalgic; there are thrills, laughs, twists, and overall, a strong premise. Saul/Jimmy's willingness to just about anything to establish himself professionally holds promise, especially since we know he doesn't work with the most reputable people. The true highlight is by far the return of Tuco Salamanca, all at once terrifying and hilarious, rejoicing in becoming the "Kingbreaker," cleaning up "salsa" stains, yet also filled with glee as he makes someone's leg bend the wrong way.

Justin Bieber has confessed that he feels hurt by online criticisms and nasty comments about his behavior.
Last week (29Jan15) the Baby hitmaker made a surprise visit to comedienne Ellen DeGeneres' U.S. talk show, where he was visibly nervous as he apologized for his past bad boy antics, admitting he "did some things that weren't exactly the greatest".
Following the taping, Bieber posted a video online, telling his fans that his nerves got the best of him, and on Thursday (05Feb15), the pop star returned to the talk show to explain his uneasy behavior, and the reason he felt the need to make a follow-up video.
He said, "It was the first time I was on television for a long time and I just was worried about what people were thinking about me. Like I said last time, I did a lot of things over the past few years that I'm not proud of. "People often forget that, even with their comments and stuff they think it doesn't get to me, but it gets to me. People assume it doesn't bother me, but I gotta stay strong enough to just keep pushing.
"I'm passionate about being better and growing so I think that this is going to be an awesome chapter in my life and I'm so glad that I have you guys supporting me."
The same day his second appearance aired in the U.S., Bieber was spotted at the Santa Monica Courthouse in California, where he was checking in with his probation officer. The meetings are part of his sentence stemming from his vandalism conviction last year (14). Law enforcement sources tell TMZ.com that Bieber received good reviews about his behavior over the past few months.